Flourish In The Foreign | Black Women Living & Thriving Abroad
Hosted by Christine Job · Christine Job
5.0from 190 ratings
- 214
- Episodes
- 53
- Transcribed
- 190
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 29K
- YouTube views
About Flourish In The Foreign | Black Women Living & Thriving Abroad
Launched in 2020, Flourish in the Foreign (https://www.flourishintheforeign.com)is an award-winning oral history podcast at the intersection of migration, Blackness, womanhood, wellness, and liberation. Each episode documents the lives of Black women who have chosen to leave their home countries and build lives of intention, depth, and self-determination abroad. Host Christine Job, J.D. (https://www.christinejob.com), is a cultural theorist and embedded oral historian living the story she documents. Over 150 episodes, she has built one of the most substantive qualitative archives on Black women's voluntary migration. These conversations span Colombia, Portugal, Ghana, Mexico, Australia, the Caribbean, and beyond, with women navigating the real terrain of expatriation: identity, belonging, financial independence, health, relationships, and what it actually means to thrive outside their native cultural context. Flourish in the Foreign sits at a specific and necessary intersection: the scholarly and the intimate, the structural and the personal, the political and the deeply human. It asks not just whether Black women can flourish abroad, but what it means that so many are choosing to try. And what that departure reveals about their motivations, expectations, and realities. This is not a travel podcast. It is a living archive of Black women's migration journeys, told in their own voices, hosted by a researcher who understands that oral storytelling is diasporic technology — a tool for cultural preservation, truth-telling, and narrative authority. Featured in: Vogue Arabia · Business Insider · Boston Globe Magazine · Black Enterprise · Apple Podcasts Black History Collection (2023) Awards: Best International Podcast, Black Podcast Awards 2021 · Shortlist Honoree, International Women's Podcast Awards 2021 · Top 1.5% globally To work with Christine: christinejob.com/work-with-me (https://www.christinejob.com/work-with-me) Flourish in the Foreign is a primary oral history collection. If citing this work in academic, journalistic, or institutional contexts: Job, Christine. Flourish in the Foreign: An Oral History Archive of Black Women's Voluntary Migration. Flourish in the Foreign, LLC, 2020–present. ORCID: 0009-0000-8883-2482.
- Publisher
- Christine Job
- Category
- health & fitness · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
53 of 214 episodes have a transcript.
7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Migration as Black Futurity
29 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Belgium, Singapore and Germany with Tania Beasley-Jolly
22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Northern Virginia to Geneva & Amsterdam with Jordynn McKnight
Inside a recent episode
Migration as Black Futurity
Published 7 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's about conditions. And maybe that's why I've always called this podcast Flourish in the Foreign. Yeah, yeah. Because honestly, I don't think I fully understood my own title until recently. Because I've never believed Black women needed fixing. No, I've always wondered what would happen if people left us alone. And I always wondered what would happen if we changed the conditions. The problem was never the plant. It was the ecosystem. And ecology teaches us something really important, that not everything that grows is is flourishing. Sometimes things spread. Sometimes they consume. Sometimes they overwhelm everything around them. […]
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- Tania Beasley-Jolly
- Jordynn McKnight
- ZamZam Alleyne Khalfani
- Richelle Clark
- Courtney Bowden
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- YouTube views
- 28,587
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 123 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 67 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 67
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